rreport on Windows

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> Behalf Of Bruce Easton
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:44 PM
> To: filepro list
> Subject: RE: rreport on Windows
> 
> Brian K. White wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bruce Easton" <bruce at stn.com>
> > > Kenneth Brody wrote Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:09 AM:
> > >> Quoting Bruce Easton (Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:47:48 -0400):
> > >>
> > >> > I have an output process that creates records in another file for
> > >> > several hundred records (Windows 2000 server w/filepro 5.08).
> > >>
> > >> filePro "5.08"?  I assume you mean "5.0.08"?
> > >
> > > Yes.  But actually I was mistaken.  Their filePro is actually
> > > 5.0.14.
> > >
> > >>
> > >> > When the process starts, the whole screen goes blank and never
> > >> > shows the count-down of selected records (right now all but one
> > >> > record in the file).  I don't get anything back on the screen
> > >> > until the process is finished.  Is this normal behavior for
> > >> > Windows filePro?
> > >>
> > >> No.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Any ideas on what causes this?  I run the request from their
> > > development menu which has /fp/rreport - -u -j -pq
> > > and the config editor shows the env:
> > >
> > > pfprt C:\testing.txt
> > > pfprtc nocodes
> > > pfver ON
> > > pfpto 20
> > > pfnet ON
> > > pffiles 300
> > > pftoksize 300000
> > > pfformtoksize 300000
> > >
> > > The icon that starts up filepro has command his buffer size 50
> > > and number of buffers 4 and layout window height of 25 lines
> > > (someone wrote and asked about this).
> > >
> > > There is no output to screen from the process.  I do close
> > > records I'm writing to at the end of each record processed
> > > in the current file.
> > >
> > > Someone said that if this process is going fast enough and
> > > nothing ever slows it down, that I may never see a
> > > record count down and nothing can be done.
> > >
> > > Is that true?  (The screen was blank for a good 3-4 minutes.)
> > >
> > > Bruce
> > >
> > > Bruce Easton
> > > STN, Inc.
> >
> > It definitely only updates the display once per second or once
> > per <some unit of time> or once per <something>, not every
> > record, we can all see that plainly. So several hundred records..
> > I have definitely seen the record counter (in all phases,
> > scanning/selecting/reading/processing) jump by several hundres of
> > records at a time while processing thousands of records on a fast
> > server with simple processing.
> >
> > So I could imagine your situation.
> > I would have expected at least the normal rreport screen with the
> > header/title and the bottom of screen prompts though, not a
> > totally blank screen.
> >
> > --
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> 
> The number of records selected (and I think so far have been correctly
> processed [posted into an empty file]) is 25,156.  I may have seen the
> report header for a fraction of a second when the process started.  Then
> the screen went blank until  the menu came back, as I said, about
> 3-4 minutes later.  I've run it a few times - each with the same behavior.
> 
> Bruce
> 
> Bruce Easton
> STN, Inc.

Bruce,

I've seen this problem with some of my outputs. Try video sync as each
record is processed.  This may help.

Richard